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Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies

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American actress Celeste Holm who rose to fame in Broadway''s Oklahoma! and won an Oscar for 1947''s 'Gentleman''s Agreement', has died. She was 95. Her other well-known films included 'The Tender Trap' and 'High Society'.

American actress Celeste Holm who rose to fame in Broadway''s Oklahoma! and won an Oscar for 1947''s ‘Gentleman''s Agreement’, has died. She was 95. Her other well-known films included ‘The Tender Trap’ and ‘High Society’. (AP)

The actress''s later years were marked by financial troubles and legal battles with her son over her fifth marriage, to a man 45 year her junior. Relatives said that she died at home in New York surrounded by friends and family, the BBC reported. (AP)

She got her first major Broadway role in a 1940 revival of ‘The Time of Your Life’, co-starring fellow newcomer Gene Kelly, and in 1943 she earned wide recognition while portraying Ado Annie in Rodgers and Hammerstein''s Oklahoma! In this pic, Lee Dixon, Celeste Holm, Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts and Joseph Buloff are seen in the original production of 'Oklahoma!' Holm (AP)

She moved on the Hollywood, winning the Academy Award in 1947 for best supporting actress for her performance in ‘Gentlemen''s Agreement’. There were also Oscar nominations for the movies ‘Come to the Stable’ (1949) and ‘All About Eve’ (1950). In this pic, Celeste Holm, center, and George Seaton, right, hold their Oscar statuettes at the 1947 Academy Awards ceremony. (AP)